I don't care if they look exactly like bloodelves I don't see how it would hurt the game.

I am all for the removal of racial ties within the game for several races but not all
Orc/Undead = horde only
Human/Worgen = alliance only
Everything else = you choose which side to fight for.

Then again if Blizzard ever decided to reboot the franchise I would hope that they would make paladins alliance only again but instead of making shaman horde only that they would instead make deathknights horde only as it makes much more sense.

Agree with this (though I'd add a couple more races which are strongly faction based; blood elves are obviously not) and also the idea of making high elves a possible subrace for "night elf". But I'd prefer them as a new race. Defecting blood elves can certainly add to their numbers, and elves are capable of adjusting their breeding rates if other settings are anything to go by, e.g. the drow.

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Originally Posted by NatureDrake

Blood Elves are my favourite race, because I find their story tragic and interesting. High Elves experienced the same stuff and kept their dignity. I usually play the sophisticated and regal side in video games, and realistically I would play a High Elf, but the thought of playing Alliance for that honestly puts me off. It's sad, really; I like the Alliance lore-wise, but players I've encountered in-game have made me dislike the faction

A third or "neutral" faction would be nice but I don't see Blizzard doing it.

Agree with this (though I'd add a couple more races which are strongly faction based; blood elves are obviously not) and also the idea of making high elves a possible subrace for "night elf". But I'd prefer them as a new race. Defecting blood elves can certainly add to their numbers, and elves are capable of adjusting their breeding rates if other settings are anything to go by, e.g. the drow.

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A third or "neutral" faction would be nice but I don't see Blizzard doing it.

The Pandaren are obviously an alliance race- it was even intended to be in BC instead of Space Goats. They are Panda bears, and needed to be written in such a way that some ended up allied with the horde.

Obviously! It's not like Chen Stormstout helped Rexxar in the founding of orgrimmar or anythin... oh wait!

I'd rather skip the overthinking and accept why, lore-wise, High Elves would join the Alliance.

As a RPG DM, it troubles me when I plan something to see my players saying "He did this because he was mad about our soccer game earlier" / "This NPC is for sure invincible, knowing our DM", "Only reason this Paladin ran away is because our DM likes him and doesn't want to see him dead".

I'm into the "Accept and move on". When I read a book I don't start overthinking what the author wanted when adding a scene or introducing a new character. Just accept it that it was designed that way and move on.

It doesn't. It does however make high elfs more powerful as a faction.

After the events of dalaran they should be purged for betraying their belf brethren in favour of a crazy alliance witch. Not be given more power.

It's because the events in Dalaran I want them as playable, I want to play an all out war between high elves and blood elves. Complete and utter civil war where the players lead the events. That's something we haven't got in WoW.

Also, horde already have an alliance race, pandaren. Not even a reskin or recolor!

They would probably have similar racials. Blood Elves dont have very many anyway, actually the least in number of all races. High Elves are addicted to magic they just chose not to use demons to kick their withdrawal.

Also Pandaren are more a Horde race since they were only playable in a Horde WC3 campaign. I would compromise and say they dont really belong to either faction.

Also, horde already have an alliance race, pandaren. Not even a reskin or recolor!

They would be. The only different would be that blood elves steal magic (Arcane Torrent) and high elves mediated. Two ways to fight addiction, but arcane resistance and arcane affinity would be there for both races. Physically there the same. Only eye color being different.

I do like to think up new things like this for fun, so I came up with 3 new racials for high elves last night. Has to be 3 has blood elves only have 3.
Arcane adept: Increase mana pool by 5%. Arcane Insight: Increase Inscription by 10%. and Arcane Focus: Mediated restoring mana (works like water so they would never need to carry any). On a none mana class it would work different. (Wars and DKs would get more rage/RP off of there abilities) (Hunters/Rogues/Monks(none Mistweavers) would get faster regain for a few seconds)

Don't see the point. Would rather they toy around with Blood Elves, make them neutral like pandas. Then you can play an Alliance Blood Elf. There's not too much of a problem with the story seeing as they've already had talks planned with Varian(dashed by Jaina, unfortunately), you'd just have to neutralise something from the Alliance side, and Draenei would be perfectly fine for that with their "the Legion is so much bigger than all of us" spiel.

The only concrete numbers that exist (the RPG books) said that it was around 25,000 - after Theramore, this number would drop to 20 to 21,000.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

- Thucydides

There is a modern myth that people have always tended towards democracy, constitutions, electoral rights; but in truth, love of freedom has never been the predominant note of popular politics. At most times, popular demand has been for a strong government.

Just give me a Thalassian elf of some description on Alliance, damn it.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

- Thucydides

There is a modern myth that people have always tended towards democracy, constitutions, electoral rights; but in truth, love of freedom has never been the predominant note of popular politics. At most times, popular demand has been for a strong government.